Java – What does Gradle ‘build’ task include exactly

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I have searched on Gradle docs and on the stackoverflow and some other places but I can't find information about what is bundled in this task in depth, or I missed it, if so please point me to the direction.

  • It comes from java-base plugin, right?
  • Running gradle -q tasks doesn't say much about it.

build – Assembles and tests this project.

  • Running gradle help --task build shows detailed info, ok – but it show where the task is used, in which groups is included, type of a task, and paths.

  • I have tried to track manually what does comes with it, and noticed, compile, test etc tasks.

I would like to know what exactly comes from Gradle build task, what are the task dependencies.

Best Answer

You can use the Gradle Task Tree Plugin to see the task dependencies

eg:

plugins {
    id "com.dorongold.task-tree" version "1.3.1"
}

Then run

gradle build taskTree

Output

:build
+--- :assemble
|    \--- :jar
|         \--- :classes
|              +--- :compileJava
|              \--- :processResources
\--- :check
     \--- :test
          +--- :classes
          |    +--- :compileJava
          |    \--- :processResources
          \--- :testClasses
               +--- :compileTestJava
               |    \--- :classes
               |         +--- :compileJava
               |         \--- :processResources
               \--- :processTestResources
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